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India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

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While Middle Eastern Coloniality was defended against by the natives owing to its "in-your-face" nature, the end goals of European coloniality were much more oblivious. This book is designed for a very niche set of audience who possess enough knowledge about the historical events. Importantly, he believes that thinking in the colonial language influences the mind towards coloniality.

He was able to articulate many principles drawing on ancient Indian wisdom – which is rare in management thinking. Swarajya - a big tent for liberal right of centre discourse that reaches out, engages and caters to the new India. It is high time Bharat looks at itself and pushes its own indic view instead of following the template set forth by western nations.We are made aware of how these standardizations and laws percolate to this day, resulting in government control of Hindu temples in a supposedly "secular" state. While the abuse of a venerable language such as Sanskrit by an ignorant and condescending elitist such as Thomas Babington Macaulay should come as no surprise to anyone possessing even a shard of literacy, it is downright lamentable, that a person of the stature of Mohun Roy protested and railed against the dissemination of Sanskrit. This book starts with that context and provides extensive references on how the Indian mind came to be colonised.

The normative Western mindset, incapable of both acknowledging and respecting such relationship proceeds to mercilessly pillage the land and enslave the native.The process of substituting Western OET for indigenous OET was rendered convenient due to a paucity of written records maintained by the native. India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European 'colonial consciousness' (or 'coloniality'), in particular its religious and racial roots, on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation and the origins of the Indian Constitution. The very idea of India, its civilizational unity, its relationship with time and its subjectivity have been thus tied to the advent of the colonizer.

It will have equipped itself with a single book to serve its epistemological needs and a single drill for its ritual routines. Interestingly Sai Deepak himself is at the forefront of a litigation against these draconian and anti-diluvian measures and the matter currently is pending adjudication by the Apex Court. For example, Vincent Arthur Smith and George Chisholm boldly claim “India, encircled as she is by seas and mountains, is indisputably a geographical unit, and as such is rightly designated by one name.Among these are the actual and saddening words of some members of our Constituent Assembly battling — and, failing — to keep ‘Bharat’ as the sole name for the new state; the Papal Bull of 1493 that so generously offered the world to Portugal and Spain to carve up between themselves; potted histories of the 30-year war, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. But they have all signified one unmistakable truth – that the attribute of colonialism is not just a detritus or a residue influencing the thought process of our nation.

However, what surprises me most on Decoloniality is we in Bharat have never heard about it or have an idea that such a school of thought exists and what it's implications are formerly colonised societies.So, despite having a perfectly legitimate POV on issues like CAA (not NRC), Article 370, Triple Talaq abolition etc, the Union BJP govt was unable to put forward coherent and well-constructed arguments.

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